I’m no RTS professional, however I’m nonetheless experience or die for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. I’ve poured what have to be a whole lot of hours into marketing campaign and skirmish modes throughout the sport’s 4 variations, gleefully gunning down gue’la for the higher good and deep putting dreadnoughts the place they’re least welcome. Granted, there isn’t any report of my wartime victories, because the Steam variations of those video games (and the CD-ROM variations of my youth) by no means had acheivements—till now.
That solely holds for the lately launched definitive version, which as Sean Martin stated in his impressions is a “sparing” however superlative model of the traditional RTS collection, however the GOG model has the achievements as nicely. You can discover the total record on a Steam News Hub blog post from Thursday, they usually’re about what you’d count on.
There are achievements for winning a skirmish and multiplayer match as every faction, seeing each ending across the various story campaigns, and more flavorful ones like killing 666 space marines while playing as chaos marines. There’s also an accolade for deploying each of the games’ relic units—big monsters like the Greater Knarloc and the Bloodthirster—which was always a hype moment in-game, even if matches didn’t always go on long enough to facilitate it.
None of them should prove particularly elusive, provided you can find enough opponents online to get all the multiplayer achievements. There’s also “The Grim Darkness of the Far Future,” where you’re meant to kill 40,000 enemy units… hopefully you’ll be fighting lots of imperial guardsmen.